John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford was a British Whig statesman who served as the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland from 1757 to 1761. A leading member of the Whig party during the Seven Years' War, he negoti
Portrait by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1770
Bedford was a patron of Canaletto and commissioned a number of works from him, including this view of Venice.
1759–1762 portrait Bedford by Sir Joshua Reynolds
Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford KG was an English nobleman and Tory politician. He was the son of William Russell, Lord Russell, and his wife Lady Rachel Wriothesley. From 1683 until 1694, he
John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford
…promoter of cricket and a patron of the arts who commissioned numerous works from prominent artists, most notably Canaletto. He was the fourth son of Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of John Howland of Streatham, Surrey. Known as Lord John Russell, he married in October 1731 Diana Spencer…
Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford